NORRISTOWN — A Lansdale man faces several years of court supervision for assaulting his live-in girlfriend and endangering their child with whom he fled in a vehicle while allegedly intoxicated after the assault.

Sircar Brown, 21, of the 800 block of Moyers Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11 ˝ to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to charges of simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person in connection with a July 2013 domestic-related incident.

“He’s admitting to a night of violence where he escalated an argument with the mother of his child to the point where he struck her and hurt her pretty seriously and then took off with the child and drove away with the child while drunk,” alleged Assistant District Attorney Alec O’Neill, captain of the district attorney’s domestic violence prosecution unit. “He was specifically a danger to his child in the car. Anything could have happened.”

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Judge Steven T. O’Neill, who accepted a plea agreement in the matter, also ordered Brown to complete four years’ probation after he’s paroled, meaning Brown will be under court supervision for nearly six years.

Brown, who was represented by defense lawyer Carol Sweeney, received credit for the time that he’s been in jail since July 15, 2013.

An investigation began about 10:37 p.m. July 15 when Lansdale police responded to the Moyers Road apartment for a report of a “physical domestic.” The victim, according to the arrest affidavit filed by Lansdale Police Officer Richard McCarrick Jr., “was visibly upset, bleeding from her nose,” when police arrived at the scene.

The investigation determined that during an escalating argument outside the apartment, Brown punched his girlfriend multiple times in the face, chest and stomach, knocking her to the ground, before stomping her three times on her face and chest, according to the arrest affidavit. The woman told police that Brown then fled in her vehicle with the couple’s then 11-month-old son.

Police determined that Brown, who was 20 at the time, fled to a friend’s house in Philadelphia and that’s where he was taken into custody a short time later. The child was found safe. When police took Brown into custody they detected a strong odor of alcohol emanating from his person and he was lethargic, according to court papers.

In court papers, with the child endangerment charge, police alleged Brown knowingly endangered his child’s welfare “by operating a motor vehicle he was not given permission to take while intoxicated to flee the scene of an assault.”

The woman was transported via ambulance to Lansdale Hospital for treatment of her injuries, which were later determined to include a fractured nose, a fractured clavicle and multiple facial contusions, according to the complaint.

Other charges of aggravated assault, unauthorized use of a vehicle, driving under suspension and consumption of alcohol by someone under 21 were dismissed against Brown in relation to the domestic incident.

But Brown also pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a small amount of marijuana in connection with a separate June 18, 2013, incident in Lansdale during which police found a small clear bag containing suspected marijuana between the passenger seat and center console of the vehicle Brown was operating. Brown’s 30-day probationary sentence for that incident was imposed concurrently with his sentence in the domestic-related case.